Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Fight back against snooping begins - Part 1

I discovered the ixquick search engine many months ago and have been using it continuously as my home page and search engine of choice. It works faultlessly, it is just as quick as the 'G' word and it doesn't store or use any of my search data and attempt to leverage this information into some selling scam or intrusive advertising feature.
Now this could just be a clever unique selling proposition. Or it might just be a clever unique selling proposition with morals attached. If it's the second then I will be sticking with them. Have a go for yourself. There is another way.

Thinking about my post below re Big 'G' and tax, I have of course no way of knowing the ixquick policy on these things. If I get a moment I will email them and ask.

ixquick appears to be a Google replacement with integrity and privacy for the user.

Here's another reason why ixquick is possibly a better way to browse, it appears that Google is, quite legally, 'avoiding' paying a big wollop of UK tax which in these changing times is a sign of the way things need to change.

If you want to trade in our country, with us, using us as a way to make money, then pay the rightful tax due for that privilege to whomsoever you should pay it, even if it means your bottom line is decreased by a minuscule amount, otherwise we won't use the free service you provide off the back of which you make multi-millions.

Just a thought.

According to a recent poll 60% of Britons oppose the States data retention laws.
What a crying shame we no longer live in a democracy otherwise we would be able to do something about this.

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Here is the Google Map which started the whole idea for this blog.

I started this blog by recording and attempting to show some of the ways in which the activity of the State is affecting you and yours in the brave new world of UK State Fascism from the tragic extreme of Jean Charles de Menezes to the surreal yet still very scary.

I am no longer updating the map as the madness of worldwide state and corporate control has sped away from my ability to keep up.

I am however morphing the posts into an ongoing series of creative pieces, taking original news from elsewhere and changing it in various ways - Serious Comment Through Artistic Intervention - find my favourites under the List of Rants tags.

Flip Flops, where one part, a name for instance, of two wildly different posts are swapped.

At A Quick Glance, where the first impression of what has been posted is different from the reality, but I go with the first impression anyway.

Future News where I take a post from elsewhere and extend it into the future with a quizzical eye attempting to see what may be in the year 2024.

State sponsored fear and distrust as seen through the twisted technological lens of petty officials and would be bureaucrats exist worldwide now. Always Ask Them Why.

It is increasingly difficult to explain just why 'you' should be concerned about State and Corporate Control and the all pervasive creeping Data State when talking to friends and acquaintances, whose first question has been along the lines of "How will all this affect me? Why should I and my family be concerned about all that?"

The presumption is that only terrorists or criminals need be afraid and that none of the radical changes to our laws and freedoms now coming to fruition will affect me will they?

Yes they will. They already are.

I have stopped updating the map but it remains out there in the world as a idiosyncratic memory. Enjoy.

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